Ooparts

The story begins with Jack, in the summer of 2001. He is a small town reporter living in the West Country of the UK, preparing to take a new job in Canada, and finding in his belongings, a fossil he collected as a child. But the fossil contains the key to the whole story. It has in it's matrix, a piece of gold jewellery.

This find (called in pseudo-scientific circles as an Oopart – or Out of Place Artifact) leads Jack to investigate it's origin and history. His journalistic curiosity leads him to various conspiracy theorists.

He teams up with a beautiful conservator, Elizabeth, from the local museum, and they embark on a journey of discovery, connected to radar and death ray research during the Second World War. He becomes involved with a group called the Time Initiative, formed to police activities of rogue German scientists still operating in the time continuum. He becomes further involved until the ultimate struggle across the millennia ensues, with drastic results.